Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

Sense will always have attractions for me.

There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.